Published Thursday May 22, 2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - A Texas appeals court said Thursday that the state had no right to take more than 400 children from a polygamist sect’s ranch, a ruling that could unravel one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.
The Third Court of Appeals [...]
Articles tagged with: polygamist
Appellate court overturns polygamist sect custody decision
Lawyers Fight to Be Heard in Texas Polygamists’ Child Removal Cases
John Council
Texas Lawyer
April 18, 2008
Lawyers for the state tried to prove why the judge should give them temporary managing conservatorship of the children
As some of the parents of the 416 children that Child Protective Services removed from a West Texas polygamist compound looked on, 51st State District Judge Barbara Walther tried her [...]
